Heidi

[Guest guest]

Hi, how have you been doing yourself?? Have your feet healed

completely yet? Thanks for asking, and yes I am feeling alittle

better today. I thought I was doing pretty good until last evening,

I was hit with another attack.(SOD) It seems that just when I am

starting to gain alittle strength, then whammo. I am doing better

tonight, but this morning (6am), I was awakened with chest pain and

heart pounding. I woke my hubby and told him to be ready to go to

the ER. I was feeling pretty bad. Anyway, I think that I let

myself get too dehydrated and as a result, my body was trying to

tell me in a frightening way. I have been having so much nausea

lately from the " flu " and the SOD attacks that I didn't want to eat

or drink because of it. So I decided that I had better get a good

amount of water into me or I knew the hospital was the next step.

Luckily for me, the water helped and I avoided the trip to the ER.

I also realized that I had stopped the Oxycotin that Dr. Lehman gave

me when I was discharged from the hospital, only 4 days prior to my

first SOD attack (last tuesday). So today I started back on the

Oxycotin along with my demerol and " so far so good " . I was able to

eat some food too and now I am doing much better. I think that I am

just about over the " flu " , but my pancreas and this SOD is just

knocking me down. It has also been hard (being sick) because we

have had a couple of really nice days with lots of sunshine, and I

can't do anything but lay on the couch. Well, I guess that's

enough whining for me. I know that I have to wait for approximately

2 months to see if this sphincterotomy worked or not. Hopefully it

will give me a couple of months (or years) without SOD attacks

again. My daily left-sided (pancreas)pain is pretty manageable with

pain meds, thank goodness!

Take care

Kris in TN